Legislation governing the activity of the Maritime Hydrographic Directorate
Organisation and operation
- Law No. 395 of 11 October 2004 on maritime hydrographic activity.
Download PDF (146 KB) - Government Decision No. 804 of 21 June 2006 approving the establishment, under the Ministry of National Defence, of an activity fully financed from own revenues.
- Ministerial Decision No. 126 of 23 February 1926 on the establishment of a special hydrography and geophysics service under the Danube Division and a special hydrography, geophysics and astronomy service under the Sea Division.
- Council of Ministers Decision No. 2444 of 11 November 1955 on the transfer of the maritime piloting system through lighthouses and signalling from the Ministry of Naval and Air Transport to the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
- Order No. M 129 of 7 November 2016 establishing the public data resulting from maritime hydrographic activity made available to users, the hydrographic, cartographic and publishing activities that may be carried out for a fee, and the related fees, as subsequently amended and supplemented.
Download PDF (405 KB) Amendment M 235/2018 — PDF (2.2 MB) Amendment M 54/2023 — PDF (67 KB) - Peacetime Organisation and Operation Regulations of the Maritime Hydrographic Directorate "Comandor Alexandru Cătuneanu".
Related regulatory acts
- Law No. 346 of 21 July 2006 on the organisation and operation of the Ministry of National Defence, republished in 2017, as subsequently amended and supplemented.
- Law No. 414 of 9 November 2006 on the accession of the Government of Romania to the Convention on the International Hydrographic Organization, adopted in Monaco on 3 May 1967.
- Law No. 289 of 31 October 2022 on the ratification of the Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation, open for signature between 27 January 2021 and 26 January 2022, signed by Romania in Paris on 23 September 2021.
- Law No. 17 of 7 August 1990 on the legal regime of Romania's internal maritime waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented.
- Law No. 256 of 12 November 2018 on certain measures necessary for the implementation of petroleum operations by holders of petroleum agreements relating to offshore and deep onshore petroleum perimeters, republished in 2022, as subsequently amended and supplemented.
- Law No. 121 of 30 April 2024 on offshore wind energy.
- Decision No. 832 of 11 August 2021 approving Romania's Military Strategy.
- Government Decision No. 1414 of 19 November 2007 approving the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Defence of Romania and the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on cooperation in the fields of hydrography and oceanography, signed in Bucharest on 23 July 2007 and in London on 28 August 2007.
- Government Decision No. 1560 of 19 December 2007 approving the payment of Romania's annual financial contribution to the International Hydrographic Organization.
- Government Decision No. 546 of 7 April 2004 approving the Methodology for the delimitation of the state's public domain in the coastal area.
- Government Ordinance No. 41 of 12 August 1994 authorising the payment of membership fees to intergovernmental international organisations of which Romania is a party (the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities — Paris 1957, Romania acceded in 1966).
- Government Emergency Ordinance No. 97 of 9 November 2023approving the Maritime Spatial Planning Plan.
- Order of the Minister of National Defence No. 82 of 20 August 2008establishing the fields and conditions for undertaking and providing, upon request, through units of the Ministry of Defence, services for legal entities or individuals, as subsequently amended and supplemented.